John Petrovich

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Petrovich graduated from USC with a BS in Finance and received his JD from UCLA. He has over twenty years’ experience in private practice as a corporate finance lawyer and ten years of senior executive experience in biotech and biomedical companies, including serving as CEO of Calando Pharmaceuticals and Insert Therapeutics, both startups launched out of Caltech to develop cancer therapeutics.

Mark Chamberlain

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Chamberlain has worked for several Alfred Mann companies over the last twenty six years, including Bioness, where he was the Senior Vice President of Operations, and Advanced Bionics, where he was the Vice President of Operations. A graduate of Cal State Dominguez Hills with a B.S. in accounting, Mr. Chamberlain previously worked in the aerospace and defense industry.

Farah Boroomand

Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Boroomand is a UCLA graduate in Applied Math with thirty years experience in the financial world, including more than twenty four years in the medical industry. She has previous experience with Advanced Bionics as an Accounting Manager & with the Alfred Mann Foundation as its Controller.

Eric Grigsby, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Grigsby graduated from Brown University with an undergraduate degree in Biology and Economics. He then completed medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and completed residency training in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He received his Masters in Business Administration, in Health Sector Management, from Duke University. Professionally, Dr. Grigsby was Director of the hospital pain service at Mayo Clinic, and was later Founding Director of the University of California at Davis Pain Center. He has been in private practice of pain management in Napa, California for 20 years.

Mike Perrin

Vice President, Quality Assurance, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs

After 16 years at Litton Aero Products, where he created and implemented their first quality system based on ISO standards, Mr. Perrin joined AMF in 2001 as a quality inspector. Since then he has worked to develop AMF’s quality management system. He also spent four years in the U.S. Air Force as a Navigation System Specialist, and earned a four-year degree from the Community College of the Air Force in Electrical Systems. In 2007, Mr. Perrin became an American Society for Quality Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence.

Valma Klein

Director, Clinical Affairs

Ms. Klein began her career with Telectronics Pacing Systems in France as their Field Clinical Engineer Manager. Ms. Klein relocated to the United States to work for Clinical Research at St Jude Medical’s Cardiac Rhythm Management Division (or CRMD) in California. Ms. Klein joined AMF in 2013 as Director of Clinical Affairs. She graduated from Marquette University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.

Karen Morris

Director, Human Resources

Ms. Morris began her career in the manufacturing industry and spent over 20 years in the Information Technology and Human Resources arena. She joined AMF in 2001 as the Human Resources Manager, added responsibilities in Facilities Management, and was promoted to Director in 2010, where she contributes to the company’s mission and leadership. She began her education in the field of Computer Science and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management. She also earned her California General Contractor’s License where she works with sub contractors and facilities management.

Staff Members

Alfred Mann Foundation’s expertise collectively held by our engineering and development team is unparalleled in the medical device field. Working in a not-for-profit environment allows them the freedom to undertake seemingly impossible, risk-intensive projects that might be too costly or too risky for profit-driven companies. Among our employees we have many with doctorates and other advanced degrees, military veterans, and people who hail from more than 20 foreign countries and, between them, speak more than a dozen languages. Our diversity of background paired with a combined hundreds of years of experience in biomedical, mechanical and electrical engineering, quality control, software design, patent law and clinical expertise put us in a unique position to solve some of the most challenging problems in medicine and bring these products to patients who will benefit from them the most.

Meet some of our prolific inventors :

Joe Schulman

Throughout his career and during his time as the first President of AMF, Dr. Joe Schulman has applied his work as an engineer, physicist, and biologist to electronic design. He has more than 100 patents in biomedical technology and was instrumental in the development of the rechargeable cardiac pacemaker, the implantable insulin pump, and the first cochlear implant with bidirectional telemetry. Dr. Schulman now serves as the Chief Scientist at the Mann Medical Research Organization (MMRO). Born in New York City, Dr. Schulman grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA where he obtained a BS in Physics and a PhD in zoology.

Chuck Byers

Chuck Byers worked on the University of California, San Francisco team that ultimately implanted more than 20 cochlear implants in clinical trials before transferring the project to AMF. He designed and developed the hermetic case, the electrode array and lead, and the multichannel disconnect system associated with the cochlear implant. A listed inventor on more than three dozen US patents, Mr. Byers was also involved in the development of the microstimulator system and the long-term glucose sensor. Mr. Byers is a biomechanical engineer and earned his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University.